Les Orchard isn’t just a cool domain name. He is a person. A person who has done a great job detailing HTML 5 drag and drop that you can use today in Firefox 3.5. Les takes us down the path from simple drag and drop, to event propagation, to feedback images, to rich data transfer Read the rest…

Following up on the earlier coverage we are back with more info on 3D transforms. Simon Fraser has posted details on the WebKit blog. He shows off a couple of cool examples: The post goes into detail on the new CSS such as: < View plain text > css translate3d(x, y, z), translateZ(z) scale3d(sx, Read the rest…

CSS is great for styling, but can be agonizing for laying out applications. There have been attempts to do JavaScript powered layout, but what about adding more semantics to CSS itself? Darrel Karisch has posted on just that, with his CSS Scripting Layout: This document describes a new set of CSS properties and object specifications Read the rest…

Ryan Scherf has created a simple jQuery plugin that “uses Mobile Safari’s built in touch events to allow jQuery binding of swipe events to any DOM element. You can override the swipeLeft and swipeRight defaults functions to create your own custom process when the gesture is detected.” It can be used as simple as: < Read the rest…

Many sites have been slowly crying off of IE 6 support, and big boys like Twitter, Facebook, Digg and YouTube are joining the action. What is interesting about the YouTube story is the placement of the upgrade buttons. Twitter took the tact of “if the user is using browser X, I will just prompt them Read the rest…

Remember the era of the sitemap? Matt Everson has rev’d it up again with SlickMap CSS a nice visualization that runs on top of a simple set of ul lists. To check out the magic, just peak in the CSS and see fun uses of new CSS: < View plain text > css -moz-border-radius: 5px; Read the rest…

Ouch. We all want the IE 6 users to upgrade. Unfortunately, some of the stragglers aren’t Bob’s mum who doesn’t know better. Rather, they are poor buggers at work who aren’t able to upgrade (or fear that they can’t). And there are the pirating folk who fear the Microsoft updater so never upgrade a thing Read the rest…

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The iPhone has had these wicked cool 3D transforms hardware accelerated for awhile. We haven’t seem them in desktop Safari though, until now. Charles Ying shows us Snow Stack: Oh, was there some Microsoft plugin launched last week? We don’t need no stinkin’ plugin! Charles tells us more: Larger images load in after 2 seconds Read the rest…

Michael Zoellner has developed an augmented reality twitter mashup that is very cool indeed. AR is great stuff, and the Web platform is a great way to mash it up. Hopefully Apple will take the petition seriously: The whole application is developed in Webkit (UIWebView / Safari Mobile). A native Cocoa wrapper delegates location, compass Read the rest…

Yesterday’s announcement of Yahoo’s YQL now supporting insert, update and delete overshadowed another interesting new feature: JSONP-X output. Here’s what it is and why it is useful: YQL data can be returned in XML which is annoying to use in JavaScript (for starters because of crossdomain issues in Ajax). JSON is much easier as it Read the rest…

Scott Jehl has released jQuery Visualize, the plugin that groks HTML tables and generates lovely charts from it, all from a simple $(‘table’).visualize(); (lot’s of options for you to twiddle too if you want). First, you create a bog standard table like: < View plain text > HTML <table> <caption>2009 Individual Sales by Read the rest…

Neil Thomas of the Gmail for Mobile team keeps coming with great information on lessons learned. The latest discusses timers, and how to use them effectively (setTimeout/setInterval). There are old questions here…. should you use lots of timers, or use one uber-timer that coordinates life? Here are some thoughts from Neil: When I first started Read the rest…

After being rumoured and showcased at @media Ajax 2008 by Jake Archibald in a pretty epic presentation (audio) the BBC now finally went through all the red tape needed and Glow is available as open source. Glow is the BBC’s own JavaScript library and in use on their sites. The reason to build an own Read the rest…

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